"..."
In the corridor, Chen Qiu looked expressionlessly at Fat Dragon standing beside him. "You failed even that?"
"Yeah..."
Fat Dragon lowered his head, rubbing his nose with a guilty expression as he murmured, "How should I put it? Something unexpected happened. If it had been mere beauty, Brother Qiu, you know my character. How could I possibly have failed to resist?"
"But the illusion was actually Ma Yinxue!"
"That really was hard to resist."
"After all, she used to be the moonlight in my heart. If that hadn't happened later, perhaps she would have stayed by my side for a long, long time."
"Sigh."
Chen Qiu let out a soft sigh and said nothing more, only feeling somewhat helpless. Still, he could understand. This was not the first time something like this had happened. He still remembered that long ago, in the Mocking Heaven Sect secret realm, Fat Dragon had been the same way. When facing Ma Yinxue's illusion, he had failed to hold himself back.
From a certain perspective, that counted as pure love.
"It's fine. It's only a Purple Trait. Let's keep moving."
At this moment.
Everyone had already come out through the door. Once they emerged, a translucent panel shrouded in mist appeared above each person's head.
It was clearly marked with:
"First Trial, passed."
Almost everyone present had the same words displayed on the panel above their heads. Everyone had passed the first trial. Only the panel above Fat Dragon's head read—
"First Trial, failed."
For a moment.
Everyone instinctively looked toward Fat Dragon. Some wore complicated expressions, some looked disdainful, while even more frowned in thought, wondering why Fat Dragon had made such a choice.
The temptation of beauty in this trial had been simply... too easy. Without exaggeration, even